This Photograph of a Barn Window Displays an Amazing Optical Illusion

A Reddit user named Statussliver uploaded a picture on Reddit accompanied with the following curious caption: "Took this picture of an empty barn window, Turned out looking like a picture on the wall."

The caption makes complete sense once you look at the picture, however. At first glance, the picture appears to show what looks like a nature show playing on an HDTV, mounted on a wooden wall. However, there’s actually no television in the picture. The picture actually shows a real river, a meadow and a barn as seen from the window of the barn from which the photographer took the shot.

The HDTV-like effect seems to have been created due to the contrast between the perfectly lit dock and the shadowed walls that surround the barn window.